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Helsing posted:Haven't been able to post much the last few days and currently phone posting so I don't have any links to drop but I'm disappointed to see nobody bringing up the two funniest breaking stories of the moment, There are two sound bites of Doug floting around. In one of them he says it's disgusting to drag him through ththe mud. In the second he says it's freedom of speech what you gonna do Doug can't pick a stance publically 
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Political affiliation can be interpreted on two dimensions: empathy and privilege. Many women are privileged however women are highly socialized to be empathetic. So getting a privileged AND unempathetic woman (Leitch, Thatcher, etc.) is truly a special person.
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vyelkin posted:another bit of news, the Liberals can't even control their own backbenchers anymore. It's good to see MPs standing up and voting on a good bill in defiance of the cabinet which has obviously been subverted by lobbying. Makes me feel like there's still maybe a little hope in this country 
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Did you happen to see freeland goose-stepping around in an ss uniform whacking brown people with a riding crop
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namaste faggots posted:Did you happen to see freeland goose-stepping around in an ss uniform whacking brown people with a riding crop That part of International Women's Day happens behind closed doors, CI.
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vyelkin posted:another bit of news, the Liberals can't even control their own backbenchers anymore. "Sorry industry, we needed your money but also we think your position sucks. We found a compromise where we can claim that it's not our fault the bill passed" It feels like this is a pretty rare occurrence. If the government really cares about how a vote goes, it goes that way. On the other hand they're incompetent. Maybe somebody forgot to tell the whip.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/young-canadians-could-pay-dearly-for-liberals-deficits-report/article34244165/quote:Young Canadians could pay dearly for Liberals’ deficit-financed spending: report hmmm better call up Canadian Technology Thought Leader and Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie to find out what he thinks lol millenials are hosed 
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are there any canadian Captains of Industry who aren't loving third rate bootlicking dipshits
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Prediction: In 30 years, they'll talk about reserves the same way we talk about residential schools now. Yeah probably.
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namaste faggots posted:are there any canadian Captains of Industry who aren't loving third rate bootlicking dipshits It's easier to rent seek or use regulatory capture and political ties than to actually run your business profitably let alone innovate or compete in world (or hell domestic) markets. So, no.
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Alberta tells prosecutors: Don't waste time on cases with 'slim chance' of conviction How much I wouldn't want to tell someone "Sorry, we don't have the money to prosecute the person who attacked you."
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Risky Bisquick posted:There are two sound bites of Doug floting around. In one of them he says it's disgusting to drag him through ththe mud. In the second he says it's freedom of speech what you gonna do He might have realized what how counter productive it was to criticize the film. The angry quote where he fantasized about running the filmmaker over with his car was probably the best promotion the film could ask for (and gave every media outlet a great excuse to run a story a on it in their news section). If I were a producer on that flick I'd want that quote right on the poster.
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I've been lead to believe that's pretty much how the justice system works already (i.e. pile on the charges and let the accused plead out so it doesn't even go to trial). Though maybe not for first degree murder.
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That is exactly how our justice system works. That combined with counting on the justice system forcing people to put their lives on hold for years at a time taking the fight out of people. It's why the crown in some places is getting super loving pissed that judges are actually tossing cases based on charter violations due to excessive trial lengths.
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Full Judge Dredd now. or maybe fix our social safety net and decriminalize posession of drugs to lighten the burden on our criminal justice system. Naw, gently caress it, Judge Dredd time.
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Powershift posted:Full Judge Dredd now. Our goverment doesn't believe decriminalizing drugs is a good idea, even the ones they're legalizing. And the social safety net? That would mean having to actually fund programs instead of just talking about them.
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Arivia posted:Our goverment doesn't believe decriminalizing drugs is a good idea, even the ones they're legalizing. And the social safety net? That would mean having to actually fund programs instead of just talking about them. maybe if we pointed the CRA towards money launderers and real-estate fraud rather than prying back the childcare tax benefit from the hands of minimium wage families there would be enough money to fund some programs. What frustrates me the most is we know what we're doing wrong. We can quite clearly point at the problem and say "we've been trying to fix that problem the same way for 50 years, and it's not working", and there are shining examples of what does work to massive public benefit, to a cost benefit. Portugal decriminalizing drugs, treating it as a public health issue. Salt lake city housing the homeless, giving them a base to rebuild life from. giving them a chance to break the cycle, and reduce the burden. Colorado legalizing marijuana, reducing opiate overdose deaths by 25% Finland overhauling their k-6 education system jumping from the bottom of the list of best educated to the top. These places have been our guinea pig, taking the leap to prove what works. we have such a small largely homogenous population, it would be easy to adopt what works, but there's this thin little layer of opposition to progress known as "the government". The conservative alternative is worse, taking what has proven to destroy kansas and having all 29 conservative leadership candidates screaming over each other about who implement that failure the fastest.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Alberta tells prosecutors: Don't waste time on cases with 'slim chance' of conviction I'd say its a conflict of interest for the judiciary to 
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Powershift posted:maybe if we pointed the CRA towards money launderers and real-estate fraud rather than prying back the childcare tax benefit from the hands of minimium wage families there would be enough money to fund some programs. Oh great so you've come up with a comprehensive plan to convince your middle class Canadian from Langley or Oakville that they should vote to increase their tax payments in order to make all your dreams of turning Canada into a Nordic paradise a reality. The problem is your average bridge and tunnel exurbian is a loving oval office face rear end in a top hat who is to busy driving around in a leased luxury car (72 month term) and carrying mortgage payments equivalent to half a month's pay to give. A. gently caress.
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We could pay for the school and homeless housing if we let everyone get high as gently caress whenever they wanted to but taxed the poo poo out of it and also reallocated all funding previously going towards anti drug police units.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:Alberta tells prosecutors: Don't waste time on cases with 'slim chance' of conviction It's super loving sad, but I agree with the others in that I'm given to understand that that's really already how the system works. If everything had to go to a real trial the system would collapse overnight.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:It's super loving sad, but I agree with the others in that I'm given to understand that that's really already how the system works. If everything had to go to a real trial the system would collapse overnight. If there was a want/need for everything to go to trial, there would be a requirement for 10x the number of crown prosecutors and legal defense. The plea bargain is what keeps the slow gears of justice grinding.
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namaste faggots posted:Oh great so you've come up with a comprehensive plan to convince your middle class Canadian from Langley or Oakville that they should vote to increase their tax payments in order to make all your dreams of turning Canada into a Nordic paradise a reality. Most of those things save money. We're wasting $900 a day hospital beds on people who would be fine sitting at home smoking weed if it was easier to get than heroin. We're wasting emergency room staff and police resources on homeless people looking for somewhere to escape the -30. We're paying teachers to teach 30 3rd graders how to pass a test rather than We're wasting tax money to do it wrong, and tax money isn't the only cost. It seems a very significant portion of property crime and it's fair to say most violent crime is done in the pursuit of drugs. The increased insurance cost, and cost to each victim is probably enough to pay for some sort of addiction treatment beyond just letting them all steal poo poo and pawn it to OD. We're paying more to do it wrong.
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Powershift posted:We're paying more to do it wrong. *plays first four notes of O Canada*
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EvilJoven posted:It's great because I'd be basically getting a tax rebate just by not wanting to be high all the time. Silly goose. Tax breaks are the most addictive!
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Powershift posted:Most of those things save money. We're wasting $900 a day hospital beds on people who would be fine sitting at home smoking weed if it was easier to get than heroin. We're wasting emergency room staff and police resources on homeless people looking for somewhere to escape the -30. We're paying teachers to teach 30 3rd graders how to pass a test rather than You have it good in theory however the people you need to convince are ALWAYS RIGHT and NEVER WRONG
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There's a hell of a lot of truth behind the hackneyed old "an ounce of prevention to save a pound of trouble" or however it goes. I'm phone posting so I haven't gone looking for studies, but I doubt many would disagree that keeping people from needing to go to the hospital/ER through early prevention and diversion will lead to bigly $$$ savings in the Healthcare system, and much faster access to medical procedures. Shame people are too shortsighted, fygm and cowardly to make such changes.
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https://twitter.com/douglastodd/status/839694622586658816
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They surveyed 1150 people online, seems like a trustworthy and comprehensive study http://www.edelman.com/trust2017/trust-in-canada/
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Wistful of Dollars posted:There's a hell of a lot of truth behind the hackneyed old "an ounce of prevention to save a pound of trouble" or however it goes. Well hey if I can get a free house just by being homeless then maybe I'll just be homeless for a year to get my free house. How dare my tax dollars go to helping those people just for being too lazy and stupid to find somewhere to live. - actual Canadians The barrier you have to overcome is not financial literacy about prevention being better than cure, it's spite at other people being given free things. See, they get free healthcare so that's fine, homeless people should have that too. But the moment you start giving them free homes there will be a huge backlash even though it's cheaper than their regular emergency room visits.
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Another day, another venn diagram that overlaps "Conservative Leadership candidates" with "white supremacists".... https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/09/5-tory-leadership-hopefuls-grant-interviews-to-anti-islam-commentator.html quote:
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Canada averages; ICU daily : $3600, and ward daily: $1150. Think about how many families push to keep their relatives, some vegetables or very late Alzheimers/dementia/MS/etc, through the courts getting injunctions to maintain their faith based life values. This is before the administrative burden we have ugh
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Risky Bisquick posted:Canada averages; ICU daily : $3600, and ward daily: $1150. Think about how many families push to keep their relatives, some vegetables or very late Alzheimers/dementia/MS/etc, through the courts getting injunctions to maintain their faith based life values. Stop being a [faith]ophobic, that stuff is off limits. I've also requested to be kept alive as long as possible especially as a vegetable, I'll get back every tax dollar I've sunk into the worthless system. As if my final act would be an act of financial charity to the ontario health system.
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Postess with the Mostest posted:Stop being a [faith]ophobic, that stuff is off limits. I've also requested to be kept alive as long as possible especially as a vegetable, I'll get back every tax dollar I've sunk into the worthless system. As if my final act would be an act of financial charity to the ontario health system. Fuckin A tear down the system one brain dead husk at a time!
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Risky Bisquick posted:Canada averages; ICU daily : $3600, and ward daily: $1150. Think about how many families push to keep their relatives, some vegetables or very late Alzheimers/dementia/MS/etc, through the courts getting injunctions to maintain their faith based life values. I have this argument with my mother all the time, that these people are effectively torturing their loved ones thanks to our cultures twisted inability to deal with death. It's not about saving a life, it's about avoiding their own personal pain for as long as possible. When my Grandmother had late stage cancer she was loving begging for death, but our insane medical system insisted on bringing her back repeatedly and prolonging that agony until she didn't even recognize her own child. I've made it clear in a living will that if I'm ever incapacitated I want the plug pulled. Being artificially kept alive while losing control of my body and facilities is vastly more horrifying than the sweet release of death.
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Rime posted:I have this argument with my mother all the time, that these people are effectively torturing their loved ones thanks to our cultures twisted inability to deal with death. It's not about saving a life, it's about avoiding their own personal pain for as long as possible. I've made it clear in a living will that if I'm ever incapacitated I want the plug pulled. My dad and I have the same agreement. We went through it with my grandfather and watching as his brain turned into mush and he became a shell of a human being basically cemented that I'll eat a shotgun before going through that.
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Another day, another venn diagram that overlaps "Conservative Leadership candidates" with "white supremacists".... This is a bit misleading because of this part: quote:By Johnston’s count, he’s now interviewed seven Tory leadership contenders, although as of Wednesday he’d posted video of just five — Maxime Bernier, Michael Chong, Erin O’Toole, Pierre Lemieux and Brad Trost. With the exception of Bernier, who agreed to an hour-long phone interview, the others were videotaped for a few minutes following events featuring multiple leadership contestants. I'm not going to give this guy the page views to go see his videos but I'm guessing these leadership candidates were asked a few questions after events, answered them, and left without having any idea who this guy was. His claims to importance and notoriety in the article are way overblown. "Everybody knows who I am because I have 4,000 Youtube subscribers" is a pretty big leap to make. Really the only candidate who should be in more poo poo based on the Star's reporting is Bernier because he's the only one who actually gave more than a couple minutes of his time and had the opportunity to do due diligence before talking to this guy.
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